Zusatztext Electrifying . . . a knockout. Capote's alacrity and cunning makes this his most enjoyable book. Newsweek An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb! near-perfect pitch with dialogue. The New York Times Book Review Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit. . . . These stories and vignettes will endure. The New Republic Informationen zum Autor Truman Capote Klappentext In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself! who! whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe! remains one of the most elegant! malicious! yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time. Zusammenfassung In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue. The New York Times Book Review Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time....

 “Electrifying . . . a knockout. Capote’s alacrity and cunning makes this his most enjoyable book.” —*Newsweek

* “An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . [with a] superb, near-perfect pitch with dialogue.” *—The New York Times Book Review

*“Everything is displayed in this book: insights and recollections of the famous and the obscure; old jokes and fresh wit. . . . These stories and vignettes will endure.” *—The New Republic

Autorentext

Truman Capote

Klappentext

In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.